PLAGIARIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plagiarist mean? 

• PLAGIARIST (noun)
  The noun PLAGIARIST has 1 sense:

1. someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own

  Familiarity information: PLAGIARIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLAGIARIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

literary pirate; pirate; plagiariser; plagiarist; plagiarizer

Hypernyms ("plagiarist" is a kind of...):

stealer; thief (a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it)

Derivation:

plagiarise (take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property)

plagiarism (the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own)

plagiarism (a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work)

plagiarize (take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property)